It was exactly that action in 1915, which allowed Carranza to transport his troops across Texas to go into action against Poncho Villa's, that lead to the 1916 raid by Villa on Columbus New Mexico. Villa, not illogically, concluded that the United States should be chastised for intervening in the Mexican civil war in that fashion.
The irony was that Carranza personally disliked the United States and had never been its friend. Wilson's 1915 action had been a mistake. Carranza was asking him to repeat it. At the same time, Mexican revolutionaries in Sonora had invaded neighboring Sinola.
It was Arbor Day.
Agriculture Secretary Meredith making the principal address at the Arbor day exercises in Washington D.C.
